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TIL that The Sun does not have a definite boundary and the radius is only defined for measurement purposes.

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4XABw TIL that in 2015, mist sprinklers, which cool the air, were placed near the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Many visitors to the museum were upset, saying the shower-like misters evoked memories of Nazi-era gas chambers. Nazi gas chambers were often disguised as showers.
e0E4L TIL that Atlantic brants are medium-sized marine geese that can be seen in inshore waters along the U.S. east coast from Maine to Georgia as well as in parts of Europe. Also called brent geese or pale-bellied brants, they mainly eat eel grass, sea lettuce and seaweed in shallow tidal estuaries.
X0DED TIL the song "Life Is A Highway" was inspired by a trip songwriter Tom Cochrane took to Africa on behalf of the World Vision famine relief organization. Cochrane said later "[The song] became a pep talk to myself... saying you can’t really control all of this stuff, you just do the best you can."
wLOQE TIL claw machines can be rigged by programming them to have a strong grip only part of the time, allowing the owner to select a desired level of profit and then automatically adjust the claw strength to make sure that players are only winning a limited number of times
OowN6 TIL the celebrity crooner Frank Sinatra not only was tied up to the mob for life as they had helped him with his career, but he also owned casino's at Lake Tahoe and elsewhere in the area.